A College Student Is No Longer Enrolled At School After A Video Showing A Group Of White Students Using The N-Word Went Viral

After BuzzFeed News contacted Monmouth University, a spokesperson said the student was “immediately contacted” by an official and “is no longer enrolled at the university.”

Tanya Chen

The Live-Action "Sonic" Movie's Release Is Being Delayed So They Can Redesign The Character's Look

When the film's first trailer dropped last month, angry fans criticized Sonic's design — and his humanlike teeth.

Michael Blackmon

A Massive Bipartisan Disaster Aid Bill Was Blocked By A Single House Republican

Rep. Chip Roy of Texas argued the disaster aid bill is not “fiscally responsible.”

Paul McLeod

Season 2 Of "Killing Eve" Killed The Queer Subtext, And All The Fun Along With It

Straight women are sublimating their rage against men by expressing their desire for starlets to strangle them or run them over with a car — but they don’t necessarily have the guts to scream, “Fist me, Sandra Oh.”

Natalie Adler

Kenya Has Upheld A Law That Punishes LGBT People For Having Sex

In a major blow to LGBT advocates, Kenya’s High Court said colonial-era laws outlawing gay sex should stay in place.

Tamerra Griffin

Here’s Why Authors All Tweet An Ugly Screenshot From The Same Websites

Hard-to-read screenshots of paywalled book industry websites dominate Literary Twitter.

Katie Notopoulos

The ACLU And Planned Parenthood Are Suing Alabama Over The State's New Abortion Law

The law's supporters have all but acknowledged that they’ll lose, but the goal is to force a Roe v. Wade showdown at the US Supreme Court.

Zoe Tillman

Sofia Vergara Said She’ll Be Happy With Her “Modern Family” Character’s Ending

“Gloria has such a great life and such a beautiful family that I think anything that the writers have prepared for her, I’m going to be happy with.”

Matt Ford

Morning Update: June Is The End Of May

Factoring electability into the Democratic race, Facebook's bad content, your weekend longreads. Your BuzzFeed News newsletter, May 24.

Elamin Abdelmahmoud

A New “Star Wars” Movie Based On “Knights Of The Old Republic” Is In The Works

BuzzFeed News has exclusively learned that Laeta Kalogridis is writing the KOTOR screenplay.

Kate Aurthur

The New Charges Against Julian Assange Are Unprecedented. Press Freedom Groups Say They're A Threat To All Journalists.

Legal experts say the new indictment against Assange is the first time the Justice Department has used the Espionage Act to charge a third party — not the government leaker — with publishing classified information.

Zoe Tillman

Rockefeller University Has Admitted “There Were Warning Signs” That A Doctor Sexually Abused Children For Decades

An attorney says the famed hospital missed many chances to protect young patients from Reginald Archibald, who is now dead.

Stephanie M. Lee

The ACLU Has Filed A $100 Million Claim Against The US Over The Fatal Border Patrol Shooting Of A Guatemalan Woman

Claudia Patricia Gómez, 20, was shot in the head after her group was confronted by a Border Patrol agent in Texas.

Adolfo Flores

WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Is Facing 17 More Criminal Charges In The United States

A grand jury returned a new indictment against Assange adding charges related to his alleged conspiracy with Chelsea Manning to solicit and publish classified government information.

Zoe Tillman

Congress Reached A $19.1 Billion Disaster Aid Deal After Trump Caved On Border Funding

The deal includes close to $1 billion in funding for Puerto Rico that Trump had objected to. The Senate passed the bill Thursday and Trump is expected to sign it by the end of the week.

Paul McLeod

Amazon Filed A Patent To Record You Before You Even Say "Alexa"

Amazon Echo devices could one day capture, process, and record audio spoken before the wake word for commands like “Play some music, Alexa.”

Nicole Nguyen

Twitter Is Showing More Ads, And People Are Seeing Lots Of Weird Crap As A Result

One malicious campaign used false articles about Drake and the Weeknd to promote casinos.

Craig Silverman

The Only Latino Running For President Thinks Democrats' "Electability" Fight Is Missing The Point

“The worst thing we can do is to make assumptions or use some cookie-cutter formula about who ought to be the nominee of the party,” Julián Castro told BuzzFeed News.

Nidhi Prakash

The Justice Department Argues That Congress Can't Sue The Trump Administration At All

A federal judge in Washington, DC, heard arguments Thursday in House Democrats' lawsuit challenging Trump's plan to reprogram billions in federal funds to build a border wall.

Zoe Tillman

There’s So Much More Garbage On Facebook Than You Even Realize, And It’s Impossible To Keep Up

There are 1.56 billion daily active users on Facebook, and the platform disabled 2.19 billion fake accounts in the first quarter of 2019. Plus, more disturbing stats from the company's latest Community Standards Enforcement Report.

Davey Alba

Scientists Showed How More Guns Led To More Violent Crime

A Supreme Court case may soon create a constitutional right to freely carry a gun everywhere, but that would be a dangerous mistake to make, suggests a new study of violent crimes.

Dan Vergano

Democrats Like The Idea Of A Gay President. But They Are Quietly Worried About Mayor Pete.

“I’ve heard him talk, and I like him, and I really support him," one voter said of Pete Buttigieg. "But I’m concerned that we might not be able to bring as many people to vote in the general election.”

Molly Hensley-Clancy

"Aladdin" Is Bad!!!

No one cares about people “ruining” the things we loved when we were growing up — but that doesn’t change the fact that the new Aladdin is objectively terrible.

Scaachi Koul

Morning Update: Seth Rogen, Thirst Object

The president storms out, Modi wins another term, more accusations against Tony Robbins. Your BuzzFeed News newsletter, May 23.

Elamin Abdelmahmoud

Hindu Nationalism Just Won Another Crushing Election Victory In India

Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist BJP are on course for reelection with a stronger majority than 2014.

Nishita Jha

US Authorities Have Confirmed A 10-Year-Old Migrant Girl Died In Custody Last Year

The girl had a history of congenital heart defects and fell into a coma after surgery, officials said.

Adolfo Flores

High-Dollar Donations Funded Bernie Sanders' Policy Group A Year Before His 2020 Campaign

The Sanders Institute raised more than $361,000 last year from a total of 13 large contributions.

Ruby Cramer

Advocates Say Mitch McConnell’s Anti-Smoking Bill Is Flawed And Will Be Exploited By Tobacco Companies

“It creates the opportunity to push for undoing.”

Paul McLeod

Amazon Shareholders Rejected Employees' Call To Respond To Climate Change

Shareholders on Wednesday rejected a proposal backed by 7,700 employees to come up with a climate change plan.

Leticia Miranda

Trump Lost Again Trying To Stop Democrats From Getting His Financial Records

A federal judge in Manhattan on Wednesday denied Trump's request for an injunction blocking House subpoenas to Deutsche Bank and Capital One.

Zoe Tillman

These Old Photos Show What Fleet Week Used To Look Like

For this year's Fleet Week, here's a look back at the excitement and mischief of yesteryear that could only happen in the Big Apple.

Gabriel H. Sanchez

AOC: Facial Recognition Is Growing Amid "A Global Rise In Authoritarianism And Fascism”

Ocasio-Cortez expressed concerns after a House Oversight Committee hearing on facial recognition Wednesday.

Davey Alba